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Renew New England

Renew is building grassroots power in states across the country, laying the foundation for a movement strong enough to restore the planet, make democracy real, and ensure an equitable society for all.

$627k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Civil Rights$437kCommunity Improvement$225kPublic Benefit$210kHuman Services$100kEnvironment$20k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE$225,000
RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT$202,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND$100,000
ACT INDIANA$50,000
REPRESENT GA ACTION NETWORK$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

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2
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
3
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
4
Open Democracy Action

Bring about and safeguard political equality for the people of New Hampshire. This will only happen through an open, accountable, and trusted democratic government, of, by, and for the people, that is free from the corrupting influence of…

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5
New Hampshire Democracy Fund

To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.

Civil Rights
6
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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7
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
8
Nextgen Climate Action

Nextgen america empowers young people to engage in the democratic process through voter registration and civic engagement on issues of public policy. this is achieved through innovative digital outreach, communications, and grassroots…

Unclassified
9
Democracy Unlimited

Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…

Education
10
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
11
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
12
Climate Defiance Action

Advocate for climate change and other environmental action via nonviolent direct action

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect Democracy Project; the most unlike its peers is Act Indiana -. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $320,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCERIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $140,000 · OtherRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT IN…CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC: $70,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GR…Represent Georgia Action Network Inc: $50,000 · OtherRepresent Georgia Action Netw…RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC: $202,000 · Crime & LegalRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUC…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO…Act Indiana -: $50,000 · Public BenefitPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $40,000 · Civil RightsBETTER FUTURE ACTION: $20,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$320,000Other$260,000Crime & Legal$202,000Human Services$100,000Public Benefit$50,000Civil Rights$40,000Environment$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $320,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC: $202,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $140,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC: $70,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRepresent Georgia Action Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · Tides Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Renew New England funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renew New England. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Renew New England?

    Find your warmest path to Renew New England through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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